Definitions for below

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below be·low

Spelling: [bih-loh]

IPA: /bɪˈloʊ/

Below is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in below (below).

Definitions for below

adverb

1. in or toward a lower place:
2. on, in, or toward a lower level, as a lower deck of a ship:
3. beneath the surface of the water:
4. on earth:
5. in hell or the infernal regions.
6. at a later point on a page or in a text: Compare above (def 5).
7. in a lower rank or grade:
8. under zero on the temperature scale:
9. Theater. downstage. Compare above (def 8).
10. Zoology. on the lower or ventral side.

preposition

1. lower down than:
2. lower in rank, degree, amount, rate, etc., than:
3. too low or undignified to be worthy of; beneath:
4. Theater. downstage of:

Origin of below

1275-1325; Middle English bilooghe, equivalent to bi- by (see be-) + looghe low¹

Examples for below

A much larger gravel lot across the street also exhibits multiple sites of seepage, as if pixelating from below with black matter.

Shakespeare was probably of middle height, or below it, and podgy.

Slept in snow-drift that night in wet clothes, mercury 40 below.

There were two deep reaches; one above, the other below, our camp.

When I saw the fire in the restaurant, I ran down to the floor below, where I was trapped between flames above and below.

below, on the terrace, Viviette was walking, and she filled his universe.

Above, below, the rose of snow, Twined with her blushing foe we spread.

But below the surfaces of many of his films, rude, angry sex simmered; cool, icy blondes were tied up, handcuffed, humiliated.

Much more common is the African American lesbian couple in the Deep South raising children at or below the poverty line.

Not quite, but at one point the temperature registered 29 below zero, with 21 inches of snow.